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All the Rage by A. L. Kennedy
$44.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Here, as before, lies the battlefield of the heart, where characters who have suffered disaffection, alienation or emotional damage somehow emerge - haltingly, awkwardly - into the astonishment of intimacy. And here, too, are the ones who will not shake off the hurt and the loss, who will not come throu ...Show more
Beneath the Skin - Great Writers on the Body by Ned Beauman; Naomi Alderman; Thomas Lynch (Introduction by); Philip Kerr; A. L. Kennedy
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Our bodies all have stories to tell - and who better to tell them than fifteen of the world's finest writers? Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. In Beneath the S ...Show more
Day by A.L. Kennedy
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too. Now i ...Show more
Day by A. L. Kennedy
$49.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too. Bef ...Show more
Everything You Need by Kennedy, A L
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nathan Staples is consumed by loathing and love in roughly equal measures. He is sustained only by his passionate devotion to his estranged wife, Maura, and their teenage daughter, Mary - whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years, and who thinks he's dead. When Nathan contrives to have Mary invited to the is ...Show more
Indelible Acts by A.L. Kennedy
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
The twelve stories in Indelible Acts are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. Its characters' lives are thwarted, dashed, impassioned, each in their own way immolated by hope. A queue outside a ch ...Show more
Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The stories collected in ORIGINAL BLISS are concerned, appropriately, with the complexities of sex and the lack of it. In the long novella that gives the book its title, Helen Brindle thinks she has lost God- but it is simply love that she's missing. She can't find it at home, with the violent, deadly M ...Show more
Paradise by A.L. Kennedy
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was and her drinkin ...Show more
Serious Sweet by A. L. Kennedy
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work for a government engaged in unmentionable acts. A man of conscience. Meg Williams is 'a bankrupt accountant - two words you don't want in the same sen ...Show more
Serious Sweet by A. L. Kennedy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE A good man in a bad world, Jon Sigurdsson is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work for a government engaged in unmentionable acts. A man of conscience. Meg Williams is 'a bankrupt accountant ...Show more
The Blue Book by A. L. Kennedy
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
An extraordinary novel of love, loss and the act of deception. You are crossing the Atlantic on a liner with your boyfriend who may or may not be planning to propose. You are fleeing the past - your ex-lover Arthur, the man who helped you dupe the vulnerable into believing loved ones were trying to mak ...Show more